A talk I did on plain text at my school’s Linux User’s Group, or LUG, including a demo, a calculator for emojis! It is highly inspired by Dylan Beattie's talk Plain Text.

link Learn that:

• The first telegraph ignored 6 letters
• ASCII’s origin in teleprinters shows up a lot
• Codepage 878 pursues an interesting solution to codepage incompatibility
• There are some normal ways and some very goofy ways to compare strings
• You can propose additions to unicode for free!
• The Nintendo Switch uses a uncommon feature of unicode to render its UIs
• Emojis, as shown in the demo above, are more advanced than you thought
• Some well chosen unicode characters can wreck havoc where you don’t expect

And more…

A download link is at the top for ODP.